3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.